Do you know what hands YOU should play given your various circumstances? Figure this out, and you'll be on more solid footing than 90% of your field. Anyone can get generic range charts online, but they are static and not built with YOU in mind. Dell and BJ lay out a simple framework and pose questions you need to answer to figure out what your personal, inscrutable, well-constructed range looks like.

The third and final installment of discussions surrounding bet sizing on the flop. We talk about the competing forces at play that will make you want to bet smaller or larger depending on pre-flop aggression, what the flop looks like, what your opponents behave like, and more. While the math is easy, the fact that we’re playing against humans muddies the waters.

Listen to the end to hear one set of exercises you must perform if you’re going to seriously up-level your game.

Given feedback they received from Matt Berkey at Solve for Why, Dell and BJ learned some valuable insights and dive deeper into multi-way pots, discuss how over-realizing your equity is not the same as maximizing your EV, and talk about the Yin and Yang of Minimum Defense Frequency and Auto-Profit. They also introduce a framework of bet sizing, which they'll expound on in later episodes.

We told you this rabbit hole was a deep one.

Do you think you can make money playing poker? How much ya wanna bet?

No, really. How much do you want to bet?

In the first of a multi-part series, Dell and BJ talk about bet sizing pre-flop. Previous episodes talked about why to bet and when to bet, but now Dell and BJ get to the tricky issue of addressing how. The overarching goal of betting is to maximize your EV, but how exactly do you do that? It's not as simple as you might think. 

To bet, or not to bet, that is the question:

Shakespeare knew long ago what hand classes warrant either equity realization or denial strategies - and now so can you! In modern English, even!  

Dell and BJ unpack when to bet based on whether your hand has value, needs protection, has thin-value, or just wants to get to showdown cheaply. This is the second in a series of podcasts on betting.  

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Perhaps the most existential question in the history of the world is the one asked by toddlers so often it drives parents insane: Why? For example:

In this episode, Dell and BJ discuss the problems of betting (people don't know why they're betting or not), and some solutions and tools to help figure out your incentives, including a small not-quite-tangent on the difference of auto-play vs. constructed defaults.

Dell and BJ discuss several aspects of health, and their influence on your poker performance.

BJ had several sleep issues and worked with Mollie McGlocklin (https://www.sleepisaskill.com/) to transform his sleep hygiene and relationship surrounding healthy sleep. To help him track his sleep and physical fitness, he's used an Oura Ring (https://www.ouraring.com/)

Other resources detailed in this podcast that BJ uses to track his fitness:

Listen to the Sleep Is A Skill podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleep-is-a-skill-podcast/id1501931597 - Not a sponsor, but BJ so fervently believes in this service, that he's giving a free shout-out!

The science is clear: People are generally terrible at assessing risk and acting accordingly. Our ancestors conditioned us to be risk-averse when a rustle in the shrubs could be either the wind or a tiger ready to eat us. Dell and BJ describe a risk management framework used in business that, when applied to the poker table, can help you better maximize your gains and minimize your losses.